[Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?

[Guidry, Wade]

Heather and all,

The Cal State project site has a good walk-through on creating and testing norm rules in Alma:

https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/URM/pages/637960208/How+to+create+and+test+an+Alma+normalization+rule

You can test Alma norm rules by previewing their results on a record-by-record basis.

For running a rule against a large record set, you could select a few representative (or random) records from the batch.

Using the preview option in the metadata editor, you could get a pretty good idea about how your rule will affect your records.


Wade Guidry
WACTCLC
Library Consortium Services Manager
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From: Wactclc-alma [mailto:wactclc-alma-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Heather Jean Uhl
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:42 PM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion <wactclc-alma at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Preview Jobs in Alma?

Hi, everyone.

I think I read something in the Alma documentation recently about the ability to preview a job before running it permanently.  Maybe I'm mis-remembering, because after a bit of searching in KB around sets and jobs, I can't seem to locate the documentation.

The reason I ask is that there are a couple MARC related clean-up projects I'd like to run on our local bib records in Alma.  I already created the processes and sets needed to do the jobs.  I've tested my normalization rules on single candidates, but that sets are in the 2,000+ range, and that makes me nervous as I've never done this in Alma.

Advice?  Past cautionary experiences?  Thanks in advance!

Heather Jean Uhl, Faculty Librarian (pronouns: she / her)
Acquisitions & Cataloging Department Supervisor
Everett Community College - Library Media Center
huhl at everettcc.edu<mailto:huhl at everettcc.edu> | (425)388-9139

Library Liaison for English, Journalism, Communications, Theater
Japanese Culture Club Adviser
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